From Copilot to the Garden of Eden | Adam Cogan | NCGAU

📞 Contact us: https://bit.ly/4fAFrVx In this talk, Adam Cogan explores how SSW has evolved from early AI-assisted coding to company-wide AI adoption across developers, designers, product owners, and knowledge workers. He walks through the journey from ChatGPT and Copilot to agentic tools, grounded AI systems, AI-powered reporting, smarter phone workflows, and personal assistants. Adam shares practical examples from inside SSW, including AI-generated PowerPoints, bug reporting automation, AI phone reception, grounded payroll solutions, and how teams are using AI in sprint reviews and day-to-day delivery. He also explains the mindset shift happening across software teams, where prompting, reviewing, architecture, and validation are becoming more important than writing syntax by hand. Whether you're a developer, manager, founder, or knowledge worker, this session gives a clear view of where AI is already delivering value today, where it still needs human oversight, and what the future of digital employees and personal agents could look like. 00:00 | Introduction 07:44 | A brief history of AI from Copilot to agentic tools 14:38 | Why Claude Co-Work changes the game for knowledge workers 21:32 | AI-generated PowerPoints, estimates, and business reporting 26:55 | Communication, “no AI slop,” and custom instructions 37:10 | AI phone systems and filtering low-value calls 01:01:50 | How AI is changing Scrum, sprint reviews, and developer workflows 01:06:00 | Prompting, code reviews, bug reporting, and agentic GitHub flows 01:22:54 | Grounded AI vs ungrounded AI and the payroll case study 01:31:00 | How roles are shifting for designers, developers, PMs, and data engineers 01:33:41 | Personal assistants, OpenClaw, and the future of AI at work 🌐 About SSW: https://linktr.ee/SSWTV 🔗 Links: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/ssw Twitter: https://twitter.com/ssw_tv Facebook: https://facebook.com/SSW.page Instagram: https://instagram.com/ssw_tv Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ssw_tv 👋 Get in touch: Adam Cogan – SSW SSW Chief Architect + Microsoft Regional Director About: https://www.ssw.com.au/people/adam-cogan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcogan/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #Copilot #Claude #SoftwareDevelopment #Productivity #DigitalTransformation #PromptEngineering #GroundedAI #GitHub #PowerBI #PowerPoint #Scrum #SSWTV #AdamCogan #SSWRules V2 - Marcus